#Whistleblower
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- Research: Leopold Aschenbrenner — The Fired Safety Researcher Who Wrote the AGI-Race Thesis, Then Traded ItColumbia at fifteen, OpenAI’s superalignment team, a contested 2024 firing, the 165-page Situational Awareness essay, and the hedge fund named after it: from $1.5 billion to a reported $45 billion peak, a July 2026 forced sale to Citadel, and a surviving stake in Anthropic. Both sides of the firing; every fund figure dated.
- The Deterrence MechanismDaniel Kokotajlo received the offer letter in May 2024. The letter was a separation agreement. It accompanied his resignation from OpenAI, where he had spent two years as a governance researcher working on the company’s policy on the…